Fiddle-Dee-Dee, Said Scarlett

I slept in today. I woke up at 9:30, which threw me off completely. I sort of shambled around before turning on the computer, wandered outside before making coffee, and now I'm still having trouble waking up an hour later. I do however have a fresh homemade mocha and a bowl of biscuits and gravy.

Since I've been trying to eat healthy again, Nija leaves me a note every night so when I wake up, I'm reminded to eat a good breakfast. It's been working so far.

I gave dropping Lyta some serious thought last night. I've been trying to get her out there, I've been trying to drum up plot for her, but outside of Fox she just doesn't have anything. And I'm at the point where...I don't miss playing her when I'm not. Sure, the bit of threading I did with her NS was fun and all, but...there's no burning desire to toss her out there at this point. As sad as it seems, I believe she and I are going to have to part ways. Hey, it's been nearly two years. We've had a good run.

And besides...there's another character I've been considering, for January. Oi, I thought I was done with the apping thing! Especially since CU has a three character limit, and I'm at my limit. We'll see how things go. I'm actually torn between two characters, but one has much more backstory than the other and would be easier to write an application for. But the other would be...just so much kick ass. Bah!

We'll see what happens.

I have to write about 3,500 words a day if I want to finish NaNo on time. We'll see what happens there, too.

Go Team Venture!

Thanks for the support yesterday. I'm fine now. What happened was I threw out my back in the shower when I was home alone, so I freaked out a bit. But nijawial was home shortly after, and all was fine. enigmablade and summoneddestiny came over last night, and much fun was had watching Venture Bros deleted scenes and the Christmas episode.

I got more writing done this morning! Apparently mornings are good for me for writing, since that seems to be when I do the bulk of it. I'm up to 17,500 words, which is not shabby. And I'm leaving in what I wrote last night. I've discovered a little secret to my word count uppage. I need to work Dr. Mrs. The Monarch into this more - her name is four whole words!

I swear I had some sort of awesome idea last night, but now it's gone. I'm doing this in such a patchwork way. There are just little scenes and snippets all over, waiting to be somehow connected to the rest of the story. I am figuring out how to fill in little gaps, though, which is good. This thing is actually starting to come together as a complete piece with consistent, underlying themes and plot.

I'm slipping further and further into less than great habits. I'm sitting here, not yet dressed, thinking that leftover pizza and a mocha would be a wonderful breakfast. While I reply to RP posts - all of which are vastly entertaining at the moment.

Hank and Dean the rats are comfortably situated in their new aquarium, and Hank has discovered the wheel. They both seem to enjoy all the new space, even though they consistently seek out the absolute smallest space available to cram themselves into. Usually together.

And now it's time to hit up my RP posts, check email, and see if I can hit 20k today!

Last night was one of those nights that rekindled my love for fandom.

enigmablade and summoneddestiny came over, and were extremely awesome and took us out for pizza. Delicious stuffed crust meat pizza.....mmm.

Anyway, most of the evening was spent in discussion of various Venture Bros things. Random tangents, canon inconsistencies (of which there are dozens!) and random plot bunnies for fics. So many random plotbunnies for fics. I wasn't even the only one getting bitten! I laughed so hard at points I nearly choked on my pizza. Crossover fics, future fics, AU fics, we discussed them all! It was a...a bread and cheese filled think tank of fandom!

We decided we needed a community, as venture_fandom is slash only - which sucks, because it's a good general fandom comm name - and so upon coming home, venture_inc was born. And then enigmablade and I sat on the couch, each of us hammering away at fic, reading over what the other had, offering suggestions and advice, while summoneddestiny fueled the creative fires and nijawial drew.

I haven't had a night like that since Seattle. And it was good.

Oh, chocomimi, I found that anime you were telling me about! Uh...Kuroshitsuji! I've only watched the opening so far, but it's very, very pretty!

And there goes Nightshift in damned which I am so very unprepared for. I have plans for only half my characters I believe. (Naomi, Lust, Hughes and Citan. And Tamaki gets...generic clinic stuff.) It's always difficult to find plans for Lyta, which is slightly frustrating. Whenever I do adoption posts, she's always the only character left unclaimed. And when I toss her out, no one responds (save of course for Fox, but she can't thread with the same person all the time).

I need to figure something out. :/

The high for today is only 65 degrees. This may not seem too terribly cold, but add in potential 37 MPH wind and rain, and it's pure misery. I think at this point, I'm as recovered as I'm going to get. There's still very much an all over ache, and stabbing pain in my lower back and hips when I move certain ways, but I'm getting around without needing my cane and I'm sitting up alright.

Still having a hell of a time sleeping, but that's really nothing new.

I'm trying to get caught up on RP right now, and figure out what I need to do today. I want to make some more progress on my room.

Yesterday was spent playing SH:0. We finished the sanitarium and the theater - oh holy hell, why does a single hit from nearly any monster drop Travis' life by half? I love Travis. I don't want him to die. The theater section was extremely well done, though, and I really enjoyed the atmosphere and the clever puzzles. And the design of it was just very, very well done. The color scheme, the narrow hallways, the small details... plus, it was something new. The Sanitarium was pretty nicely designed, too, but there wasn't a sense of something new there. It was a mental hospital, with nothing terribly new. I did call the big reveal, though.

Homecoming has been released. And in honor of that, I've removed all the SH communities I belong to from my Flist, to avoid spoilers. I'm saving up for an Xbox 360, and Homecoming is going to be my first purchase. What vague things I've heard have sounded promising, and the music is beautiful. And I'm not going to make any assumptions or anything until I play it - I am one of those people who hails The Room as the best of the series, after all. ;)

I'm doing a ton of research on Etruscan mythology and death legends for my Oktoberfest fic. Here's hoping I can turn it into something workable.

I still need to get one of my library books back to the library, before I get assaulted with late fees. :/

This morning was a good morning. :D Well, technically morning. I slept until around noon. But I needed to catch up on sleep - I ended up sick as all hell due to lack of sleep and lack of fluids left me nauseous and about to pass out. We did go to the midnight release of the latest Eragon book - just because summoneddestiny was stuck running it, and there was free food. I even dressed up! Because I'll use any excuse to dress up. And apparently I passed off as one of the main characters, which led people to believe I actually knew crap about the books. Which I don't, at all. Until last night, I thought Eragon was the damn dragon.

Anyway, there was free pizza and soda, and a trivia contest that was essentially poor summoneddestiny was handed the questions to like an hour before, and there were no answers. Which meant nijawial and I stood next to her with a copy of the book to look things up. *headdesk*

They were also having a kick ass sale. I ended up getting the first Trinity Blood manga for two bucks, and the entire first three seasons of Sliders on DVD for 20. I was willing to splurge. I know Sliders was a horrible show, but...I loved it. At least the first three seasons. And two whole boxed sets that cheap? How could I resist?

Oh, and we watched Zorak om nom nom on a little grasshopper yesterday. He's a finicky eater - he only likes the soft, squishy bits. ;) He also seems to like to eat while hanging upside down off the top of his house.

And I'm off hiatus at my RPs! Maria's making friends with Darth Vader, Henry and Eileen are being absolutely adorable as usual - and awkward :D - and Henry is also trying to console a slightly distraught Tohru.

I...sadly think I may have to drop Dante. I'm just not feeling her anymore, and it's not fair to everyone else and myself to try and struggle with a character I'm losing touch with. I've enjoyed playing her, and all her threads, and her relationships with other characters, but... I just lost touch. As happens. :/ And I've been kind of itching to app Myre there, so....

In damned news, Naomi's set for a night of whatever, and is going to meet up with Matsuda finally! Which should be interesting, especially since she's currently outfitted, as Arlene so aptly put it, like a kung fu hooker. :D Hughes will be with Roy, Lust's running into Hohenheim, Valyn gets to meet a newbie, Citan's hanging with his usual NS buddies, Tamaki's got clinic duty, and I'll figure stuff out for the other two. :D

And now, a meme!

If you've read my fic (or roleplay, roleplay narratives, whathave), what is/are the characteristic(s) that stand(s) out the most?

I finally managed some personal productivity last night. First, I colored my hair. No more Bride of Frankenstein. Then a bit later I swept the garage, scrubbed the linoleum in my workroom, cleaned out the sink, and then decided: hey, it's Friday night. I'm going to grab a snack and watch a movie.

And lucky for me, it was around 12:20, and The Dark Half was on at 12:30. I hadn't seen it in a while, and though it's not a particularly stand out Stephen King movie - relatively generic as far as King adaptations go, somewhere above Attack of the Killer Bouncy Balls but not at the high end of the spectrum - I decided to stick it on. It had been a while since I was able to just stretch out on the couch and watch a movie. So I grabbed a pack of cookies, turned off Watari, and settled in.

And I still managed to be up at 9:00, despite not going to bed until around 3:00 AM.

I was also able to catch up on what RP threads I was solid on, which was very nice. I've absolutely hated being not able to really get to it lately, but now that the bulk of my packing is squared away, I can take more breaks between packing and whatnot. Still waiting to work out a few backthreads and upcoming threads, but as it's the weekend, I think folks are off doing whatever it is people do on the weekends. :D

And I'm really not doing too much today. I packed my Lolita clothes, nice and neat in a suitcase, folded up George though I'm not entirely sure how to transport him, and began planning on how the hell to get my pirate chest out of the garage.

In some sad news, I found my Voltaire CD, but discovered when I put it in that it's cracked and scratched to all hell. :( Ah well.

Rumor has it there will be Burger King tonight.

ETA: Oh god, I remembered the fucked up dream I had last night!

So, nijawial and I were already living together in the dream, and we were walking home from...some sort of Halloween party, I think. We were in this weird dark forest, and this meandering knife edged, double backing path down a mountain. And it was all Silent Hill like, with fog and creepy things, and we kept having to hide in bushes. And for some reason I was carrying an empty cardboard box - this is important later.

We get back to the apartment building where we apparently live, and we decide we need to take showers because we were dirty from hiding in bushes. Apparently there was a big communal shower room in the basement, so we go down. And we get there, and there are all these mutilated corpses - mostly headless, limbless and eviscerated. And James is standing there, and he warns us Pyramid Head is wandering around the showers. And then Phead himself shows up.

We start freaking out, and I...get behind him and put the box over his head. It's a small box, but somehow it goes over him completely, and now there's a normal cardboard box, upside down in the middle of the carnage, with Phead under it. And this...stops him. So James suggests we go upstairs and look online to see how that could have worked. We go to me and Nija's apartment, and boot up the net, and James interjects that he needs to check his ponies first. Nija starts yelling at him that now isn't the time, that box will only hold Phead for so long, we need to look out how to kill him once and for all. I get online and...I don't know, I'm pretty sure Nija and James started making out in the background.

Oy, I stayed up far too late last night. I'm struggling to get myself up and going now. I've got some boxes I'm going to start filling, and nijawial, I have more news! My dad's giving us his un-used 32 inch TV.

I'm not looking forward to the packing, because I have so much stuff. And much as I'm very used to packing my life into boxes, it's never exactly fun. But my folks are taking me down to the Pub tonight for drinks, and I guess they plan on some big huge epic family outing to celebrate next week, as my sister had some very good news for us all today, too.

It's ridiculously rare that things go well for both of us at the same time. Usually it's one or the other, or things suck for us both. I need to call her when I'm more awake.

I need to do a lot of things when I'm more awake, but right now my dad's making me breakfast and I have a giant homemade mocha next to me, and I'm just trying to get myself functioning.

Someday I'll finish my 30_lemons claim. Maybe I ought to skip 'the sexuality of terror'. I'm at a loss as to how to handle that for L and Naomi.

OH! ALSO!

damned_cafe Superlatives are tallied and posted, and a few of my boys came away with wins!

Tamaki is the resident Drama King!
Valyn is the resident Stick In the Mud!
And Citan is...well himself. (Most likely to take advantage of everyone he meets.)

And Roy and Hughes got Best Friends, and Ed/Tamaki tied for Cutest Couple!

Oh, and Mr. Radio got one, and for the ultimate....Martin and Jack tied. How fitting, that even in these things, they're at one another's throats. ;)

And it was really interesting to see such a variety of characters, which proves once again that the fandom your character is from doesn't matter! Lots of little and more obscure fandoms were represented, along with the big ones!

I wanted to make little buttons for people to put in their userinfo, but I just didn't have the time. I should have done it the other day, when I was talking to Nija about it, but I got busy and...yes.

Speaking of, I should really have my breakfast, call my sister, and get started on organizing crap for my big move!

See you on the flip side!

Or not, but I kind of wasted a lot of time. :D It's one of those days where RP has eaten my brain. But in a good way.

Tamaki's finally starting to actually, healthily deal with what happened to him. He's had a couple of little set backs, but overall, he's doing a lot of thinking and soul searching and working it all out. And the twins' little plan actually didn't backfire, despite Tamaki's initial freak out. :D And he's opening up about other things, too, which is good for him. He's not repressing quite as much, and his old self is peeking through. *pats him*

Naomi's actually set for nightshift, which was something I was worried about! She really doesn't have anyone she trusts, other than L himself. But an order is an order, and despite the fact that she and L do have a relationship that's more along the line of friends than just professional, she still defects to him and takes her position seriously. So despite him giving her a mission that's technically impossible - ie, find someone she trusts - she's going to do it anyway. And it's good for her, to work with other people - other than by herself like she's used to - and start forming relationships. With...you know. Other people. :D

Valyn's still an absolute mess, who I suspect is about to start clinging to Renji any minute because damn does that boy need a hug. But again, he's starting to talk about things, in his own way. He'll get over it, as he always does, but for the moment he's very much broken. (But that's kind of a daily occurrence for him. :D)

Eileen's still doing fine, Citan's considering taking a night to round up some monster corpses and dissect them, Lyta's still dealing with her brain being overloaded by death and not completely calming down from what happened to Fox the other night, Hughes is quietly worrying over folks from home as usual, and Lust is calming down and getting her focus on. With some help from Hohenheim!

CU is still all pirate-y, and Maria's going to be calming down some before too much longer. She's cooled off, and she does have the trial to deal with. Henry and Dante are still doing their respective things. :D And...that's pretty much the state of my RP characters. Save for RW, but I think we'll be moving the plot ahead after Otakon?

I really should finish my laundry....

Because I'm a sheep: Comment with a fandom and I will tell you my....

One True Pairing Ship:

Canon Ship:

"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship:

"You are one sick bastard" Ship:

"I dabble a little" Ship:

"It's like a car crash" Ship:

"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship:

"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship:

"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship:

"When all is said and done" Ship:

Though I'd like to just say that for me, all 'OTP' means is 'favorite pairing'. The closest thing I have to an actual, conventional OTP is Henry/Eileen, but I'll still occasionally pair them with other people.

Moving on!

Sorry I didn't really reply to emails or things yesterday, and completely failed at comments last night, I just got a little overwhelmed. I hadn't really been able to RP for a bit there, and once I jumped back in everyone was around, and it just sort of was a constant cycle of comments and posts. But it was fun! Even if I was getting a little frazzled towards the end there.

I was going to finally clean my bedroom and get the furniture the way I wanted but...there's an X-Files marathon on, and I need to finish Seeing Red before tomorrow morning - when I'm passing it off to my niece - so I think I'll clean tomorrow.

I keep thinking it's Friday for some reason. I also slept until 11:30, and I'm pissed off about that. I had a restless night last night, plagued by incomprehensible dreams. I fear hallucinations again. :/

So today I pretty much just decided to just write pr0n. It's one of those days, you know? Grabbed a bunch of centi_porn prompts and did a bunch of drabbles.

We've got a variety of fandoms, pairings and kinks. So...be warned!

Pretty much everything under the cut is NC-17 or R, except a couple of the Naomi/L ones because L + sex = Very Difficult to Manage.

( Death Note, Naomi/L, 'Kiss' )

( Death Note, Naomi/L, 'Naked' )

( Death Note, Naomi/L, 'Sweet' )

( Death Note, Naomisa, 'Arch' )

( Silent Hill: The Room, Henry/Eileen, 'Tremble' )

( Damned, Jack/Max, 'Bite' )

( Silent Hill 2, James/Maria, 'Warm' )

( Damned, Alec/Martin, 'Rip' )

( HBC, Shana/Valyn, 'Ice' )

( Damned, Alec/Martin, 'Blind', Light Bondage )

( Fatal Frame II, Mio/Hand, Mio/Mayu, 'Breath', Twincest, Autoerotic Asphyxiation )

( Silent Hill 2, Mary/Maria, 'Reflection' )